From Silence to Primary Definer: The Emergence of an Intelligence Lobby in the Public Sphere

Abstract

Citation: Lashmar, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-9049-3985 (2018). From silence to primary definer: The rise of the Intelligence lobby in the public sphere. Critical Sociology, doi: 10.1177/0896920518780987 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Using content analysis and framing models of newspaper coverage of intelligence debates, this paper focusses on the three years after the Snowden revelations and indicates that a lobby of current and former intelligence chiefs, senior oversight appointees including lawyers and politicians coalesce to support the agencies' agendas. The paper concludes that there are serious political and democratic issues about the extent of the lobby's interventions in the public sphere. Permanent